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Sam Farmer (sfarmer)











  • sfarmer wrote a new blog post: Jungle Sprint   1 year, 8 months ago · View

    ThumbnailFor our latest world building assignment, we’ve been asked to compose a screenshot of the kind of place we’d like to create in Unity. I’m intending to make a first-person canabalt where you’re sprinting through a jungle to catch a mysterious glowing pixel sprite that always manages to stay a few feet ahead of you. The [...]

  • sfarmer wrote a new blog post: 484/489: When Hurting the Player Can Help the Player   1 year, 8 months ago · View

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    For a bit of context, this is an essay I wrote for my first Intermediate Game Design course. I was asked to designate this game, Randy Balma: Municipal Abortionist, as following one of the three schemas listed in Peter Brinson’s post here.
    Randy Balma: Municipal Abortionist by Mark Essen does everything in its power to be an avant-garde [...]
  • sfarmer wrote a new blog post: CTIN 532: Cloverfield's World of Postmodern Horror   1 year, 8 months ago · View

    ThumbnailFor my first 532 assignment, I’d like to present my filmic analysis of the Horror movie  Cloverfield. I believe this film blends many aspects of the Horror genre with various postmodern devices to create an immediately relatable, yet fantastical world. Hopefully this explores storytelling concepts that are relevant to world building, invites a discussion, and also reveals some of my personal taste in cinema. [...]